The Syndicate

I did change it in one of my posts, but it didn't work

It's worth watching just for the panda.

I wrote flavour for some of the power roles, here it all is (I'd have posted it with the deaths of said power roles, but I didn't get to post much of it)

Poo Poo Road:

We had opted to venture the countryside on route to our destination, both to take in the natural scenery, and to avoid being held up by any incidents along the highway. Unfortunately, this came with its own type of peril – upon reaching Poo Poo Road, we were met with enormous dust clouds that trailed behind us as we drove along, and our cars were ravished by the gravel that lashed and scraped the sides, leaving no spot unblemished. By the end of the 40km stretch, one car was so badly caked with dust and the tyres were so worn that it was almost unrecognisable.

‘This is ridiculous!’ the eldest brother cried. ‘It’s all fine for Dad, he’s got a four-wheel drive!’

‘You’ll have to get the car washed again.’ the younger replied.

The eldest smirked, though he was not happy in the slightest. ‘He’ll be paying for it, that’s for sure.’


Kamikaze Cow:

The vast farmland had no shortage of farmstock of the cattle variety, with the number of cows sighted over the course of our journey infinitely outnumbering the population of the many towns we passed through. For the most part, these cows were harmless. They watched as we passed by their old, rusted fences or else laid down in their own filth. As we rounded one corner, however, we were forced to hit the brakes harder than expected as a single cow without any respect for its own life charged onto the road before making its stand in the very center, preventing us from moving on.

‘You shall not pass.’ it mooed (probably).

Dad responded with a series of honks from his car horn, slowly closing the distance between his car and the troublemaker.


Closed Restaurant:

After seven tiresome hours of road trip trivia, a number of bathroom stops and far too many cows, we had checked into our motel room. After spending an hour in bed watching television and whining in the mafia game I was playing at the time, there was a knock on the door. Mum stood on the other side, a look of embarrassment etched on her face.

‘Yeah?’ I asked.

‘The Chinese restaurant is closed’. she replied simply.

‘Huh?’

‘We just assumed it’d be open, but we never went onto their website to check.’

Snooty Waitress:

The contingency involved dining at a less-impressive Chinese restaurant that night. One look could tell you that this place was nothing special. Nevertheless, we entered.
We all gathered around a large, circular table, though with 10 of us it was still a tight squeeze. Our legs touched uncomfortably, with the inevitable game of footsy beginning among my younger siblings and their friend. After a short wait, we were met with greetings from a waitress, of the snobbish variety. She looked around the table, taking in our classic bogan attire with a look of disdain on her face and began taking orders.

Being in a chair with a direct line of sight behind the bar, I found myself looking in that direction. It’s a shame that I found the waitress in question pointing at our table and giggling with her co-workers. Maybe she was crushing on me or something.

Glorfindel wrote:Well, I'm kinda happy with that. My instincts were 100% on point from the outset - nice to see I haven't lost my mojo...

On the flip side, I apologise to my fellow Townies, I let you down by not sticking with my intuition. Good game, Sprityo and Jay.

It looked so terrible for the baddies from the very beginning, I noticed you had them both pegged on instinct. It was exciting.

lol jks there's a phantom 4th person in my mind.

The vast farmland had no shortage of farmstock of the cattle variety, with the number of cows sighted over the course of our journey infinitely outnumbering the population of the many towns we passed through. For the most part, these cows were harmless. They watched as we passed by their old, rusted fences or else laid down in their own filth. As we rounded one corner, however, we were forced to hit the brakes harder than expected as a single cow without any respect for its own life charged onto the road before making its stand in the very center, preventing us from moving on.

‘You shall not pass.’ it mooed (probably).

Dad responded with a series of honks from his car horn, slowly closing the distance between his car and the troublemaker.



Night 4 has ended. juliets ate so much sesame chicken that her stomach exploded. RIP.

Day 5 begins, ending at 10:13 AEST

Final Tally:

llama - juliets, sprityo, glorfindel
3J - llama

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The contingency involved dining at a less-impressive Chinese restaurant that night. One look could tell you that this place was nothing special. Nevertheless, we entered.
We all gathered around a large, circular table, though with 10 of us it was still a tight squeeze. Our legs touched uncomfortably, with the inevitable game of footsy beginning among my younger siblings and their friend. After a short wait, we were met with greetings from a waitress, of the snobbish variety. She looked around the table, taking in our classic bogan attire with a look of disdain on her face and began taking orders.
Being in a chair with a direct line of sight behind the bar, I found myself looking in that direction. It’s a shame that I found the waitress in question pointing at our table and giggling with her co-workers. Maybe she was crushing on me or something.


Night 4 has begun.

Day 4 has ended. thellama73 was lynched. He was the Snooty Waitress. His full role was:

Snooty Waitress – Will live for only a conditional number of day and night phases. Wins by surviving. The waitress will, by default, survive until the end of Night 2. For every player who mentions a Chinese (or acceptable variant) dish during Day 0 and Day 1, a single phase is added to her survivability.

voting closed.

juliets - llama
llama - juliets, Glorf

1 minute.

juliets - llama, Glorf
llama - juliets

3 minutes.

Quin wrote:Day 3 has ended. Epignosis was lynched. He was the First Car.


Night 3 begins. Get your actions in! Night ends at 9:10 AEST.

This is meant to say 9:20, btw. Fail.

Epi - 3J, Glorfindel, llama
llama - Epi, sprityo
Glorfindel - juliets

Voting has closed. Posts after this won't count.

Epi - 3J, Glorfindel, sprityo
llama - Epi
Glorfindel - llama, juliets

4 minutes. Tell me if this is wrong, I feel like it might be.

Epi - 3J, Glorfindel
llama - Epi
Glorfindel - llama

7 minutes.

3J - llama
Epi - 3J, Glorfindel

Day ends in 9 minutes.

thellama73 wrote:

sprityo wrote:

juliets wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Actually, it does help. Baddis have to alternate sending in the kill, and we've had two in a row, which means it can't be Made and it likely isn't Glorf. That leaves Epi, Juliets, and JJJ. Hmmm.

Vote JJJ

What do you mean alternate sending in the kill?

I ain't kill shit

It was in the rules - they have to alternate sending in the kill.

Who's to say i cant act for my teammate if say, they were busy driving a car, or onboard a transit?

HOST: When you say a kill must be "performed" by alternate mafia members, does that mean their teammate cannot send the action in for them?

I would allow a teammate to send in the actions of their teammate if they were absent.

Ricochet was lynched. He was a vanilla civilian.

It is now Night 2.

I'll try to keep deadlines specific to the minute that I post the latest host post from now on. So night will end at 8:47 AEST.

Voting is closed.

3J - Ricochet
Ricochet - 3J, llama

One minute.

thellama73 wrote:HOST: do ties result in a no lynch?

I'll flip a however-many-sided coin.

Night 1 has ended. MP was cooked into a batch of sweet and sour pork, and it tasted delicious.



He was a vanilla civilian.

Day 2 has begun.

juliets wrote:Quin - I voted made day 0 - I didn't know that counted

I am trying to unvote made, vote sprityo

I thought people got mixed up about what day it was so I counted them.

Poll as of current:

Made - juliets, SVS
JaggedJimmyJay - MovingPictures07
sprityo - thellama73, Glorfindel
MovingPictures07 - JaggedJimmyJay
S~V~S - Ricochet

Day ends in 10 minutes.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Quin wrote:Voting will have to be done in the thread, because I don't see a way to have shorter deadlines. Votes are changeable, day 0 will end at 7:45am AEST (10 minutes)

It is limited to days (for now), yes.

You could still have a poll, just no end time in it, and then end it once the time has expired. Up to you.

I think I'll just go with in thread votes. Make sure that you all signal your votes by posting in dead red or else I might not see it and it might not be counted. Thanks.

Town
Kamikaze Cow – Gets in the way of a player each night, taking on the effects of any ability that visited their target in their place. The targeted player will automatically watch the Kamikaze Cow that night.

First Car – Shares BTSC with the second car.

Second Car – Shares BTSC with the first car.

Cow x 4 – Vanilla townie.

Mafia
Poo Poo Road – Role blocks on even nights, vote blocks on odd nights.

The Closed Restaurant – Cannot be lynched and has full immunity from night actions until all other members of the mafia team are dead.

Independent
Snooty Waitress – Will live for only a conditional number of day and night phases. Wins by surviving. [Secrets]

Most of you reading this are probably wondering why this game even exists. Who would want to play a game about Chinese food? The answer to that, my friend; you'd be surprised. So here I am, writing up this ridiculous theme for a bunch of people who get their rocks off in the Chatzy every week making a spectacle of my series of unfortunate events. Let me fill you in.

Our story begins in the early hours of the morning. In mind was a celebration for my younger brother’s 18th birthday; we would drive seven hours north to a place which housed what was described by my mother as ‘the ambrosia of Chinese food’. Such a plan, however, had its fair share of hiccups. And cows.

Rules:
- Votes are changeable.
- Info-dropping and role-claiming is not allowed.
- Self or double targeting is not allowed.
- Mafia members must take turns performing the night kill.
- Players on the winning faction will win, dead or alive.
- Day phases are 20 minutes and night phases are 10 minutes. Day 0 will be 10 minutes. Please be aware this may change depending on circumstances.
- Players should enter the thread by disclosing their favourite Chinese (or acceptable variant) dish.
- Questions should be directed to me in PM, which I may answer in the thread if relevant.
- This is an open-set up, with all flips revealed.
- All game posts should be posted in white. Off-topic posts should be posted in green. Dead posts should be posted in red. I will be using this colour, and you should not, especially if your name is Spacedaisy.
- Not having fun is punishable by a modkill.

Players:
1. juliets
2. thellama73
3. MovingPictures07
4. Made
5. S~V~S
6. JaggedJimmyJay
7. Glorfindel
8. sprityo
9. Ricochet
10. Epignosis